The second week of school begins tomorrow. At least I have a long morning to look forward to still. That always cushions the blow. Although, I have been enjoying my college classes so far from the most part, and especially the only one I have tomorrow.
It was another day of sticking mostly around the room. Mom called me this morning. I also did a fair amount of writing before Demetria and I watched the first couple episodes of "ChalkZone" together. I'd watched the series this spring after not having seen it for several years (and then only a handful of episodes), and I was really excited to show it to her.
"ChalkZone" has excellent world-building, like the fact that two of the main character trio don't get along, the protagonist can't handle the slightest amount of criticism, the antagonists are all squishy and full of soft spots along with their flaws, it's explained why magic can't solve world hunger (all food tastes like chalk dust to humans) and why no one can build an invincible weapon (if all else fails, every creation dissolves in water), and the "mortal" world starts to become aware of and afraid of ChalkZone's magic and doesn't turn a blind eye to it whatsoever.
Anyway, we got to see one of my favorite episodes of the show, where the protagonist, Rudy, tries to hide his dad's birthday present in ChalkZone. The only problem is, that present is a vacuum. And ChalkZone is made of dust. And Snap accidentally switches it on and is responsible for wiping out everyone and everything (his crush included) and runs sobbing to Rudy for comfort for the first time in the series.
There's also a Season 4 episode I like where Rudy is forced to stand by as one of his screaming creations faces a brutal death due to being licked by a dog. This was all after he'd sworn long ago that he'd never draw another living thing because he couldn't handle the responsibility. That always gets me.
So that was our morning. Demetria and I talked a lot about our respective writing pieces and the interesting Google searches we've sometimes made, and I read from my psychology textbook too. The book is weird because sometimes the author repeats the same thing three times in a row, and I start to drift away, and then I have to focus in and reread the whole thing to figure out exactly what was said and how the third paragraph is any different from the first. Also, there are bunches of questions at the end of each chapter, except they aren't in numerical order. For instance, on one page the numbers go 35, 60, 107, 93, 88, 51, 64, 59, 98, 16 with no explanation. We're still scratching our heads about that one.
This evening, we began Season 2 of "Star vs the Forces of Evil", and I'm really excited by how things are going. This show is full of psychology too, and the plot is running thicker! But geez louise, Ludo is slipping over the edge fast.
Yeah, turns out that if you tear a tiny bird prince away from his castle and the only family he's ever known and leave him starving and abandoned in the woods for three months, groveling for food by crawling into the nest of a mother bird who's feeding her actual offspring, and force him to eat the body of the only creature who actually spoke to him or else starve to death, then he'll start to tip over the edge. Give him one corrupted half of the wand he was chasing for the entire first season, leave the puzzled princess who relies on magic for everything with the other equally corrupted half, and all chaos breaks loose, cleaving chink by cleaving chink.
Fun times.
